San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-22
FRIDAY, APRIL ~, 1887.
THAT PARNELL LETTER.
As WAS stated in a brief editorial II
these columns on last Tuesday:

as WAS sthttu III u uIioi cuitolihi al
these columns on last Tuesday:
The Conservative Tory Salisbury =
Churchill Chamberlain party In Eng
land, smarting under the blows they
have received in the course OF the crimes
act debate, and fearful of the growing
importance and power OF the anti-cOer-
oiOn feeling which Gladstone and Par
nell have so universally evoked, have re-
sorted to the miserable subterfuge of
forgery in order to disoredit Parnell
with the English people. The same
thing was tried 10 this country In the
vain attempt to prevent Gartield's cleo
tion rs president. 1t failed In the United
States. This cowardly attempt in Great
Britain will also fail.
Later dispatches from across the wa
ter absolutely confirm the opinion above
expressed. The hot haste with which
the Tory leaders and the Tory press
have opened on this trail is proof pre-
sumptiYe that they were not without
some previous knowledge Of the mire
that was about TO be sprung at
lusiOns of the head of the British
government to this scandal, and his ac-
ceptance Of the report as true, despite
the positive denial of Mr.. Parnell, by
whom the letter was alleged to have
been written, and Mr.. Egan, to whom it
was written-thls indecent allusion by
Salisbury carries with 1t the conviction
that the report was manufactured for
the very purpose of discreditlng the Par
nell party In England. Mr.. Psrnell has
not only denied that letter, but he has
gone to Dublin to unearth, If possible,
the unclesn fox who brought the forged
document to the light Of day and made
the Parnell party stand sponsor for the
outrageous and infamous charges Of the
authors and abettors of the coercion bill.
The efforts to trail the author OF the
Parnell letter are not likely to end in
smoke. Already the finger Of detection
points quite distinctly to an Irish rene
gade under special British protection,
and possibly under British pay, man
who was conspicuous in connection
with the forged Morsy letter,
which has become historic on
this side of the Atlantic. The pal
pable injustice and open-handed par
TALLY Of the speaker Of the English
commons, in his ordering Mr.. Healey
from the floor OF parliament because he
resented the base insInuation Of coward
SaundersOn, has disgraced that
chair as 1t has not been dlsgrsced this
century. The end Ia not yet. This at
tempt to browbeat the members OF the
liberal party on the floor OF parliament
and then arrest them for defending their
characters when assailed, has called
down the exeoration of all honest men
on both sides of the Atlantic. The ma
liciOus conspiracy, eliminating In for
gerry, by which it has been attempted to
discredit this grand movement for Irish
liberty, will only recoil upon those dis
picable souls who have sanctioned such
an unrighteous act. The infamy that
attaches to Salisbury, Churchill, Hsr-
tington, Chamberlain, and the speaker
VI ShS Somluoho iOA bhCti part tnIS
nefariOus conspiracy, will be on their
regulations like the blood on the hands
of Lady Macbeth; 1t will not out. The
whole history Of English perfidy to-
wards Ireland contains no blacker chap
ter than this. The reaction, when it
comes, and come it will, will hoist this
tony gang so high that they will never
see power again at the hands Of an out
ragged and insulted nation.
The taunt of the English tories that
the Irish discomfort was fomented and
tostered in America and fed from Ameri-
can contributions, brought out Gladstone
His retort, that the Irish landlords were
the last who should complain of the
source from which SO much Of their rem
tails were derived, was q singer.
THE democracy of this ge-lorious coun-
ty are as impatient for the resignation
of Judge Waite Of the United States su-
preme court, as any spendthrift prodi-
gal ever was for the demise of his mill
iionaire dad. The milk In this oocoanut
lies In the certainty OF democratic sue
cessor, by the grace Of Grover the first.
Judge Waite is only seventy years old,
IN the full prime and vigOr Of strong
intellectual manhood, and no more likely
to resign than the democrats are to be-
come resigned to his holding the posi-
tiOn he so admirably and acceptably fills.